> So ask yourself which "leftist",
> "socialist" or "Marxist" analysis explained the fall of the Soviet
> Union?
The Frankfurt School did. Adorno pointed out as early as the Fifties that the East was but the pale ontological shadow of the West, right down to hideous industrialism and exchange-value-mad elites lording it over their serf-workers. One set worshipped at the altar of Diamat, the other at Daimler-Benz, but the content was drearily similar.
Heiner Mueller, the late, great, magnificent, epoch-shattering East German playwright, also predicted the 1989-91 revolutions in his amazing play, "The Hamletmachine", written in 1979.
Marxism 2, Bourgeois Empiricism 0.
-- Dennis